15 Jun 2016
EU Guidance on meeting WFD and MSFD requirements for the Aquaculture Sector This strategic guidance builds on a series of workshops that looked at the relationship between the aquaculture sector and the Water Framework and Marine Strategy. The overall aim is to facilitate the development of a sustainable aquaculture sector. Case studies are provided. Click […]
23 May 2016
The Celtic Seas Partnership is producing a series of Best Practice Guidelines to support marine stakeholders in working and co-existing in ways which promote healthy, productive seas, towards the EU’s target of ‘Good Environmental Status’. Following a series of facilitated discussions, alongside the development of ten case studies from across the Celtic Seas, we have […]
04 Jan 2016
‘Defra, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government have published the Marine Strategy Part Three: UK programme of measures. This outlines a comprehensive set of existing and planned measures that will help to achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) in our seas. The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) requires Member States to […]
02 Nov 2015
The gestation of this paper and two others has been rather controversial – no doubt the full story will emerge in time – but it is, never the less, being seen both in the UK and in Brussels as a significant contribution to our understanding of the effects of climate change on good environmental status […]
19 Oct 2015
The European Commission has published a report on the progress in establishing Marine Protected Areas (as required by Article 21 of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive 2008/56/EC). View the report at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/marine/eu-coast-and-marine-policy/implementation/pdf/marine_protected_areas.pdf.
18 Sep 2015
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) introduced a significant change in the scientific evidence requirements for supporting regulatory decisions by the marine regulatory and nature conservation agencies in the UK and the EU. Many of these decisions will result in a license or authorisation to undertake works in coastal, estuarine or marine areas, or to […]
30 Jul 2015
This report published produced by Enfusion and Jim Claydon for Wales Wildlife Link aimed to assess how marine planning could be used as an effective tool to help deliver the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). It looked at How the MSFD descriptors could be linked with MSP objectives Reviewed what progress had been made with […]
30 Jul 2015
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